References: Hair growth and hair loss
Z Mikrosk Anat Forsch. 1976;90(1):16-28.
[The development of hair and the restoration of innervation in the skin transplants in man]
[Article in German]
Kadanoff D, Wassilev W, Matev I.
Various areas in 7 local flaps and in 6 free skin grafts from the back, abdomen and thigh, applied to the palm and fingers and retained for periods extending from several months to 17 years are studied. After the second year, the transplants display virtually complete recovery of the sensation for pain, touch, pressure and temperature. The hair roots in the transplants have varying thickness and reveal changes in the structure of the connective-tissue and outer epithelial sheath (Figs. 1, 2). The sebaceous glands are enlarged. Isolated sebaceous glands are encountered which do not communicate with the hair roots. In the upper layers of the corium bundles of myelin nerve fibers are observed, giving off small groups of 2-4 fibers each, with slightly ascending direction relative to the hair roots (Fig. 3). The nerve fibers break down into branches which are furthermore ramified into smaller branches, forming palisade-like endings along the outer epethelial sheath of the hair root (Figs. 4-8). They number 15-25, being usually thin, with a discrete number of thickenings, and resemble the normal fibers running along the hair roots of the donor site (Figs. 9, 10). No capsulated receptors, characteristic of the surrounding skin, are noted in the transplants. Hence, it is assumed that most likely, the endings of the regenerated nerve fibers along the hair roots, although uncapsulated and with identical structure, provide for perceiving the types of sensation, inherent of the hairy and glabrous human skin.
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Acta Odontol Scand. 1994 Aug;52(4):219-28.
Psychologic factors in the etiology of amalgam illness.
Lindberg NE, Lindberg E, Larsson G.
National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden.
Eleven patients with amalgam illness aged 33-50 years were investigated by psychodynamic methods. Six of them, all women, were dental nurses and hygienists exposed to amalgam/mercury both from their own dental fillings and occupationally. Four men and one woman were exposed only to amalgam/mercury from their own fillings. Assays of mercury in urine samples and in the ambient air during work routines involving the heaviest exposure indicated that the exposure was far below the levels at which even subclinical symptoms could be indicated by psychometric tests. The psychologic investigation indicated that the symptoms of amalgam illness were psychosomatic. All patients had experienced important psychic traumata in close connection with the first appearance of symptoms. It can be concluded from the psychodynamic dialogues that they had not been able to mourn for a loss in an adequate manner and that the body had been forced to symbolize the great pain in their souls.
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Clin Exp Immunol. 1994 Jul;97(1):133-7.
Adoptive transfer of an autoimmunological labyrinthitis in the guinea pig; animal model for a sympathetic cochleolabyrinthitis.
Gloddek B, Rogowski M, Reiss G, Arnold W.
Hals-Nasen-Ohrenklinik und Poliklinik, Technische Universitat, Munchen, Germany.
Sensorineural hearing loss is a common problem in the otolaryngologist's practice, with autoimmune disease of the inner ear being one possible cause. The restoration of auditory function in some patients following immunosuppressive therapy has created a desire to define and understand this disease better. Because of the lack of a well defined detection method to identify this entity clinically, this study was undertaken in order to provide an animal model for autoimmune disease of the inner ear. Previous studies with guinea pigs have demonstrated that sensitized lymphocytes from the systemic circulation migrate to the labyrinth during an immune response in the inner ear. The aim of this study was to prove the capacity of sensitized lymphocytes to transfer autoimmune inner ear disease, and to describe the resulting morphological and physiological changes. Therefore two groups of sensitized lymphocytes partially labelled with a radioactive marker from inbred guinea pigs with an immune response within the inner ear were injected into the bloodstream of naive recipient animals. Most of the labelled cells were observed in the apical turn of the experimental cochlea, while only few cells were detectable in the control cochleas. In addition, the absence of otoacoustic emissions and the loss of outer hair cells observed by electron microscopy were interpreted as a sign of damage caused by the provoked immunopathologic mechanism. The results are discussed as a possible model for a sympathetic cochleolabyrinthitis.
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